Allusions in Educating Rita by Willy Russell, A2H class.

adding to pages 3-11 (Lisa)
P. 3 Henry James http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
P. 7 Dylan Thomas’s poem ‘and death shall have no dominion’ (this is probably the poem Frank was talking about) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_death_shall_have_no_dominion
P. 7 R. Mc Gough’s poem ‘Let me die a young man’s death’ (this is probably the poem Rita was talking about) http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/let-me-die-a-youngman-s-death/
P. 11 W.B. Yeats’s poem ‘The Wild Swans At Coole’ http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blyeatswildswans.htm

Cristóbal Martínez (pages 36-39) Number of allusions: 3
1.- Daily Mirror (UK tabloid) http://www.mirror.co.uk/
2.- Sun (UK Tabloid, we did a comparative assignment in one of its articles) http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/
3.- I am not pretty sure if this was the one mentioned in the book, but i looked for ITV in UK and the only same result was this, check it and tell me what you think: http://www.itv.com/

Johanne Marie Aagaard Laache
Allusions on pgs. 40-44

Everton F.C.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everton_F.C.

Liverpool F. C.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C.

Anton Chekhov:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc6.htm
http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/chekhovbio.html

Guinness Beer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness

Poet and poetry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet
http://www.everypoet.com/

Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplyov (From The Seagull by Chekhov):
http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Character-Analysis-Konstantin-Treplyov-The-Seagull/167860 - This is only a small part of a much greater analysis of the character, the rest one has to pay for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_JoUWIww4E - A part from the play.

The Seagull (by Chekhov):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seagull
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/The_Seagull

MA (Masters of Arts):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts_(postgraduate)

The Importance of Being Earnest (by Wilde):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest
http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Fiction/Wilde/earnest/
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest/

Further investigation into The Seagull by Anton Chekhov

"A young girl lives all her life on the shore of a lake. She loves the lake, like a seagull, and she's happy and free, like a seagull. But a man arrives by chance, and when he sees her, he destroys her, out of sheer boredom. Like this seagull."
"If you ever need my life, come and take it."
"I am an actress."

References to Shakespeare and Hamlet. Subtext (speaking in ways which skirts around the issues) heavily used.

pages 55-59 (Lisa)

P. 58 L. Ferlinghetti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
American poet, painter and liberal activist

Mentioned possibly because of the topics in his poems and one of his books called 'Pictures of the Gone World' -> Summer College and change
P. 58 A. Chekhov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov

Russian short-story writer, playwright and pysician
Between Chekhov and Rita you’ll find some similarities. For example both of them had to pay for education and there’s a time in their life when there’s a turning point. Chackov had a couple of turning points mainly due to illnesses. For Rita the turning point just happened during Summer College. She has changed, because of education. You could say that Rita felt sick and tired of live and wanted to change it.



Lettie
Educating Rita – Allusions
P.65 – 69
64 William Blake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_blake
65 Songs of Innocence and Experience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience
66 Dalek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
66 Lady Chatterley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley%27s_Lover
66 Sons and Lovers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_and_lovers


Nada: educating Rita pages 20-24

  1. E.M. forester: page23:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster
E.M. forester: E.M. forester is a novelist best known by his ironic novels that examines the class difference,hypocrisy and homosexuality .we can also find these features in educating Rita which creates a sort of link between wily Russell the writer of the play and E.M forester mentioned by wily Russell on frank’s tongue ,and so we can see their similarity of ideas and the reason why Russell chose forester’s character to be mentioned in his play
2) Howards end: page20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howards_End
Howards end is forester’s novel that shows the class struggle, and the difficulties that occur from the relationships between members of different social classes which is also something we can see in educating Rita as there is the class struggle and the fight that took place between both frank and Rita as the consequence of their relationship as they both come from a different class so Russell chose to refer to this particular book Howards end because it has kind off the same idea as his play as I stated above the similarity between the two writers minds
3) Jane Austin: page22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
4) Tracy Austin: page22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Austin
Rita the non educated Rita at the beginning of the play didn’t know the difference between Tracy Austin and Jane Austin who are two completely different people, Jane Austin is a writer and Tracy Austin is a tennis player .
5) f. R. leavis : page22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._R._Leavis
6) Marxism point of view: page23 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
7) Ruby fruit jungle page22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubyfruit_Jungle
8) Isabel archer: page20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portrait_of_a_Lady

9)protestant masochism page20: http://books.google.com/books?id=dcWieJiyA_AC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=protestant+masochism&source=bl&ots=zg4zJdi_Hs&sig=vJEyXmBKIY2fRPb82Y2hOOuJ9PU&hl=en&ei=